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Universität zu Köln, Institut für Zoologie und Zoologisches Forschungsmuseum Alexander Koenig – Leibniz-Institut für Biodiversität der Tiere, Zentrum für Molekulare Biodiversitätsforschung, Bonn
Peter T. Rühr, born in 1988, studied biology with a focus on the head morphology of primary wingless insects at the Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig and at the University of Bonn, where he received his master's degree in 2017. Since 2018 he has been working at the University of Cologne on his doctoral thesis about the evolution and the biomechanics of insect heads.
Activities
Peter T. Rühr, using his knowledge about applying computed tomography methods, was involved in several publications on different animal groups while he was still studying.
Focus
For his doctoral thesis, Peter T. Rühr has taken particular interest in how the shape of insect heads has changed over the course of their evolution, in the biomechanical effects that these shape changes have had and in why such a large variety of shapes has emerged.
Methods
In recent years, microcomputed tomography (μCT) has become a standard method in many medical, scientific and industrial fields. This non-invasive technique enables three-dimensional (…)
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How faulty mRNA is detected and destroyed
Scientists led by Professor Dr Niels Gehring at the Institute for Genetics at the University of Cologne have investigated two similar proteins, UPF3A and UPF3B, which are involved in the quality control mechanism ‘nonsense-mediated mRNA decay’ (NMD). Their results show that both proteins ar ... more
How gold plasma can make hidden structures visible
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